How to make the most hits on Facebook

Facebook has over 350 million active users. More than 35 million users update their status each day, with more than 55 million status updates each day. With this, more than 2.5 billion pictures are uploaded to Facebook each month. But the issue is; how do users make others view their pictures and updates more with comments, pokes, etc.  The secret is simple.

The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month. Among children under 18, Facebook was ranked third in the top 100 searches of 2009, behind YouTube and Google. Sex and porn rounded out the top five searches. Put your account relating to ‘sex and porn’ and you will be amazed the amount of friend requests you will get. A woman slept with 50 men she met on her Facebook page titled “I Need Sex”. Users tend go after words like sex on social network sites. It is because of this that a 39-year-old Pennsylvania father was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook.
In 2008, a 23-year-old woman named Lauren Michaels created a group titled “I Need Sex” on Facebook. Within 10 minutes, she had 35 members and, soon attracted 100 members, 50 of whom she eventually slept with. Facebook has since removed her page. Another user mistakenly uploaded her sex video unto Facebook, it was removed 8 minutes after making it to her profile but it was "Liked" 39,203 times. It made history because she only had 14 friends. Due to this sex ‘appeal’ and other related issues, Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook.

Apart from this secret on making more hits, likes and friend requests, here are some other facts about Facebook.
A recent survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social networking sites such as Facebook to evaluate applicants. Thirty-eight percent of admissions officers said that what they saw negatively affected the applicant. Facebook is not only beating MySpace traffic, but it is also the second-ranked site overall in the U.S. behind Google.
In 2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, where he placed photos of undergraduates side by side so viewers could rank which one was “hotter.” Zuckerberg would later turn Facemash into the now ubiquitous Facebook. This he originally called “thefacebook” and was limited to only Harvard students, but in 2005, the site was renamed “Facebook.”
An 18-year-old Wisconsin man posed as several different girls on Facebook to blackmail underage male teens into performing sexual favors by coaxing them to send nude photos of themselves. He could be facing up to 300 years in prison.
The New Oxford Dictionary announced that the 2009 Word of the Year was “unfriend,” as in “to remove someone as a friend on a social networking site” such as Facebook. However, there is some debate whether the word should be “defriend” rather than “unfriend.”

A recent poll has suggested that Facebook users have lower overall grades than non-users. An average Facebook user spends more than 55 minutes a day on the site. They use the ‘Like’ button nine times a month and write 25 comments each month. Forbes dubbed 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, the creator/owner of Facebook, as the world’s youngest billionaire, worth 1.5 billion. He came out to announce for the first time in September 2009, that Facebook was cash flow positive, meaning Facebook makes more money than it spends.

You should not be surprised that women aged 55 and older are Facebook’s fastest growing demographic, and also funny is the fact that both citizens and police departments are increasingly using Facebook to catch suspected criminals.
Secrets are revealed on Facebook. There is the case of a 20-year-old IBM employee in Canada who lost sick leave benefits from her insurer because her Facebook page showed “cheerful” photos while she was on paid sick leave for depression.
On July 1, 2009, shortly after Michael Jackson passed away, his page became the most popular page on Facebook. Previously, the most popular person on Facebook was U.S. President Obama with just over 6 million fans.
There are also good sides to Facebook. A post in December 2009 led to a kidney donation. I call that a Miracle.

Just visiting the site, you would believe there are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook. If Facebook were a country, it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, after China, India, the U.S., and Indonesia.